Recent content by Dancing Jules

Re colour scheme: The only real standard is that according to WCA-regs you scramble with darker colour (usually red) in front. For most mass-produced puzzles that will result in yellow-top. But it really doesn't matter.

Well, I tried something: I tried to approximate WR5 of the last 10 years with an exponential function. Worked really well for some events and really badly for others.

Looking at the reconstructions, it's just TPS. He's relatively inefficient for Roux. His movecount was similiar to Sebastian Weyer's, when Roux's movecount should be significantly lower.

Intermediate-ish Vandenbergh: / (-1,0) \ (0,-2) / (0,-3) \ ___ cubeshape (1,0) / (6,-3) \ (0,3) /___ corner orientation (3,0) / (-1,-1) \ (4,4) / (3,0) \ (3,0) / (-1,-1) \ (-2,1) / (-3,0) \ ___ edge orientation (2-look) (-1,0) / (-3,0) \ (-3,0) / (-5,0) \ (-2,0) / (4,0) \ (-4,0) / (-2,0) \...

Huh, no matter how I interpret the notation, I can't seem to get a 2-mover out of B L' R' U B' R U B' - how am I supposed to read it?

Intermediate-ish Vandenbergh: (0,4) / (-2,6) / (-1,-2) / (2,0) \ (1,2) / (3,0) \ ___ cubeshape (-1,0) / ___ corner orientation (1,4) / (3,0) / (-1,-1) \ (-3,0) / ___ edge orientation (3,-5) / (-3,0) \ (3,3) / (0,-3) \ ___ corner permutation (-5,6) / (3,0) / (-1,-1) \ (-2,-5) / (0,6) \ (5,3) __...

Fabio said himself that he wrote the note about "BLD ongoing, please be quiet / do not disturb" after asking a delegate. So the fact that it's his handwriting, isn't surprising.

What I find a bit weird is how Lorenzo compares big-blind results to MBLD results. By that logic Stanley Chapel should have 50+ MBLD points and Shivam Bansal should have a 3-minute 5bld result.

@porkynator Would you recognize your 3bld scramble two days after the comp?

@porkynator So, what is your opinion. Are Fabio's results reasonable? Why, or why not? And why were "many more top-level blinders" only contacted after the facebook-drama.

This is even worse than I imagined. Looks like the WDC was acting extremely unprofessionally.

Intermediate-ish Vandenbergh: (-4,-4)/(1,2)\(-3,-3)/ ___ cubeshape (-2,0)\(0,3)/ ___ CO (3,0)/(3,0)\(3,0)/(-1,-1)\(-2,1)/(3,6)/ ___ EO and yellow to top (-1,0)/(-3,0)\(3,3,)/(0,-3)\ ___ CP (4,0)/(3,0)/(-1,-1)\(-2,1)/(5,-3) ___ EP NEXT: (4,0) / (5,-4) / (1,-2) / (0,-3) / (3,0) / (3,0) / (-4,0)...

What is the probability of a PBL skip in square-1? My guess would be 1 in 20.736 (144²). Is that correct?

I have another insane squan pb - 17.54 when I average around 46. Scramble (-2, -3) / (0, -3) / (3, 0) / (3, 0) / (-1, -4) / (1, -5) / (5, 0) / (-3, -3) / (0, -3) / (-4, 0) / (-2, 0) / (-4, 0) Solution: (-4, 6) / (3, 2) / (-3, -3) / ______________ cubeshape (4, 6) /...

-4,0/3,-2,/-3,4/1,2/0,3/ ___ cubeshape 3,4/-3,6/0,3/ ____CO /-1,-1/4,4/-1,-1/ ___EO -3,-2/-3,0/3,3/0,-3/ ___ CP 1,3/3,0/-1,-1/-2,1/ ____ EP1 6,-3/3,0/-1,-1/1,4/6,0/2,6 ___EP2 (with slice flip) next: (0, -4) / (-5, 1) / (-3, -3) / (3, 0) / (2, -3) / (-3, 0) / (0, -1) / (-4, 0) / (-2, 0) / (4...